Patience Unto the "Day of the Lord" | Prof. Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This lecture was given on December 2nd, 2023, at St. Albert’s Priory.

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About the Speaker:

Prof. Adam Eitel (University of Dallas) is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Dallas. Before joining the UD faculty in 2023, he taught for eight years at Yale University, where he held appointments in the Divinity School, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Program. His research and teaching bring topics in the history of Christian theology to bear on questions of fundamental moral concern. A specialist in medieval scholasticism, his particular research interests span topics in doctrinal and moral theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas and his contemporaries.

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0:28.5	Well, good morning.
0:29.8	The title of my talk is, patience unto the day of the Lord.
0:35.3	And that phrase, day of the Lord gets in there.
0:40.3	It's a Pauline phrase.
0:41.7	It's one of his ways of talking about the topic of the conference in general.
0:47.3	What I want to speak, though, to you about this morning, isn't so much about the day of the Lord, about its, about our capacity to anticipate
0:59.7	it, or what it will be like. I want to speak rather about patience, which according to Thomas
1:07.4	Aquinas and his contemporaries and predecessors and many others besides
1:13.8	is a moral virtue that is a part of fortitude and has to do with the moderation of sorrow.
1:26.3	And the way I want to frame this is by pointing back now to one of the passages we were
1:33.0	looking at last night from Luke 21.
1:36.4	And there's a line in here in the midst of many other things where the Lord says to the disciples, and I think by extension to us,
1:48.9	you will be hated by all for my namesake.
1:55.0	Not a hair of your head will perish.
1:59.5	In your patience, you shall possess your souls.
2:03.5	That's Luke 2117 through 19.
2:08.7	That last sentence there on your handout,
2:12.8	in your patience, you shall possess your souls,
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